On 3 July 2011 21:14, Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 12:32:53PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> sure, which right now is not a separate function at all, but merely a
>> branch of the "finish" function. not exactly a huge amount of work to
>> split it out, but indicative of the complete (and understandable)
>> design assumption "there's no way to get here except via the GUI".
>>
>> otoh, you're right, in the sense that quit-WITH-save is even more
>> complex, and faces all the same issues with threading etc, only more
>> so because it actually has data to save etc. etc.
>
> 'Save' is also available from the Session menu, so I assume
> it is a separate function. Then all you need for 'Quit-
> without-save' is to skip it, which means one if().
>
>
> Quite unrelated to all of this, I do have a question
> about Ardour's 'Save' semantics.
>
> There are:
>
> (1) 'Save'
> (2) 'Save as'
> (3) 'Snapshot'
>
> and
>
> (4) 'Periodic safety backups' (option)
>
> and
>
> (5) the 'save' as performed by 'Quit' or closing the main
> window, in case "Save and quit" is selected from the dialog.
>
> How do they all interact ? I could possibly find out with
> some hours of experimentation, but I assume this has been
> defined (and maybe documented) somehow.
>
> In particular:
>
> - Is there any difference between (2) and (3) except that
> the one suggests a name and the other doesn't ? For both
> the dialog says 'Name of New Snapshot'.
>
> - After (2) or (3) what does (1) do ? Overwrite the last
> snapshot, or use the original session name ?
>
> - After (2) or (3) what does (4) do ?
>
> - After (2) or (3) what does (5) do ?
>
> This matters a lot if starting from a the same session you
> make different versions of it, e.g. a stereo mix, a surround
> mix, and 'tapes' for a live performance (in particular this
> one tends to be very differerent).
>
> Or put otherwise, is a snapshot made by (2) or (3) guaranteed
> not to modified later by (1), (4), (5), or not ?
>
> Thanks in advance for clarifying this !
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